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The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) formally took a stance against the Restoration of America’s Wire Act in August, approving a resolution that urges the federal government to allow the individual states to decide whether or not they want to pursue the legalization and regulation of online gambling. This resolution was preceded in early… Read more »
The Global Poker Index’s (GPI) takeover of the live poker tournament world is in full swing. The latest deal the player ranking site has made is with the European Poker Tour (EPT), as the EPT will now expand its use of the GPI’s ranking formula to determine its Player of the Year (POY). Interestingly, the… Read more »
It is really getting to the point where I would hesitate to visit Atlantic City just because the mood there has got to be so horrible that I wouldn’t enjoy myself. The latest bad news coming out of the former east coast gambling mecca: the Revel Casino and Hotel will close in a month after… Read more »
We have got to be near the end of this saga, don’t we? The Garden City Group (GCG), the firm appointed by the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) to serve as the Claims Administrator for frozen/seized Full Tilt Poker funds, announced Monday that professional players on Full Tilt are now eligible for reimbursement. This… Read more »
Scientific Games, one of the world’s leading lottery technology providers, announced Friday that has agreed to acquire Bally Technologies for $5.1 billion. The acquisition comes in the form of a purchase of all of Bally’s outstanding common stock at $83.30 per share, as well as the refinancing of $1.8 billion in Bally debt. In a… Read more »
A piece of interesting – and actually useful – poker memorabilia is available for the next few days, provided you want to pony up at least four figures for it. The Corum Admiral’s Cup Competition watch awarded to Jerry Yang for winning the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event has been put up for… Read more »
The late, great Chad Brown will be honored this weekend at Binion’s Gambling Hall and Hotel in downtown Las Vegas with the Chad Brown Memorial Ceremony and Inaugural Charity Poker Tournament. The ceremony, at which Brown’s life will be reflected upon, will begin at 4:00pm on Sunday, July 13th, while the poker tournament will begin… Read more »
Chad Brown, actor, model, baseball player, poker pro, and one of the greatest ambassadors the game of poker has ever had, passed away early Wednesday morning after a long bout with cancer. He was 52-years old. We all like to think we are going to leave our mark on this world, that peoples’ lives will… Read more »
The poker world is hurting for decent poker-related television programming outside of the World Series of Poker, which is really only seasonal, and the World Poker Tour. “High Stakes Poker” and “Poker After Dark,” probably the two most popular poker TV shows in recent memory, are long gone. Enter “Poker Night in America,” which will… Read more »
Canada-based Amaya Gaming issued a “move along, nothing to see here” statement Monday in response to rumors that have recently sent its stock price soaring upward. There seem to be two sources to these rumors. One is Industrial Alliance Securities analyst Neil Linsdell, who wrote on May 20th that Amaya may be eager to “‘trade… Read more »
So, do we think Tony G will tell a political opponent in Parliament to “get on his bike” after a debate? We can only hope. This week, Antanas Guoga, best known to poker fans as Tony G, was elected to European Parliament after voting concluded in his native country of Lithuania. The election took place… Read more »
A legend of poker that most poker fans simultaneously both knew and did not know passed away last Thursday. Joel “Bagels” Rosenberg, the inspiration for the character Joey Knish in the seminal poker film, Rounders, suffered a heart attack at the age of 58. Rosenberg was the classic poker grinder, plugging away to pay the… Read more »
So, Easter Sunday was fun in Gibraltar. At around 1:00pm local time April 20th, an explosion rocked a power station on the north end of the British territory, shutting down power to most of the territory’s residents. Many had power back within a couple hours and the vast majority saw it restored by 9:00pm, but… Read more »
The Borgata announced Monday the resolution to the counterfeit chip scandal that plagued the first event of the Borgata Winter Poker Open in January. The resolution was initially ordered by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) and will be enacted by the casino. To review, Event #1 of the Borgata Winter Poker Open… Read more »
My mom once told me, “You can’t get something if you don’t ask.” Phil Ivey has apparently taken advice from my mom. Details have come out of how the man many consider the best poker player in the world allegedly took advantage of a defect in the playing cards to win nearly $10 million playing… Read more »
A family that was barred from an Atlantic City resort and subsequently taken down and cuffed by security back in 2012 are now suing the property’s ownership. Michael Maggiano, Esq. filed a lawsuit against Caesars Entertainment Corporation in Lee County (FL) court on February 10, 2014 on behalf of Florida resident Renee Binns alleging security… Read more »
Daniel Negreanu would likely be the first to admit that nobody is going to look at him and mistake him for an Olympian. That does not mean, though, that he has given up on the Olympic dream. On the message forum of his website, FullContactPoker.com, Negreanu presented his idea for how to make poker an… Read more »
Scores of Neteller customers received an e-mail this weekend warning them that their accounts would be closed if they did not provide some pertinent account information before the end of the month. That e-mail was a fake. It is what is known as a phishing scam, an attempt to acquire customers’ personally sensitive information and… Read more »
Bitcoin, the virtual currency that to many has seemed like something reserved for techies and 20-somethings who spend their lives in the deepest recesses of the internet, is already accepted at a few online poker rooms, such as SealswithClubs.com. On Wednesday, it will make its first move out of the online gambling world and into… Read more »
With the U.S. financial markets soaring to new heights in 2013, it was apparent that people were willing to gamble last year. Unfortunately for Nevada, they weren’t willing to gamble on dice, cards, and spinning reels as much as the state would have liked. For the fifth straight year, Silver State casinos lost money and… Read more »
On Friday, the Global Poker Index (GPI) announced that German poker player Ole Schemion had won the 2013 GPI Player of the Year (POY) title, awarded to the years’ most successful live tournament player. Schemion just beat out GPI’s Player of the Decade Daniel Negreanu for the honor. Schemion began the year in style, placing… Read more »
There are some days in the life of a poker news writer when it can get overwhelming trying to choose something about which to write. There can be so much happening that you want to write everything and write it now. But there are days like today, the first day of the year 2014, when… Read more »
Good lord, if I thought I had just lost $300,000, I wouldn’t know what to do with myself. Actually, let’s ratchet that down, as having a bag filled with $300,000 cash isn’t even within the realm of possibility for me. Let’s divide that by ten and say I lost $30,000. Not that I’d ever even… Read more »
In a bit of a good news/bad news situation, the poker world is gaining a new brick-and-mortar poker room while losing another. First, the bad news (from my years of watching television, I am confident that most people want their bad news first). According to an article by Jennifer Gay at anteupmagazine.com, Tunica, Mississippi’s Gold… Read more »
During this season of giving, many poker players around the world are reaching into their bankrolls and sacrificing grinding time to help out those less fortunate. One such person is poker pro and noted poker personality Bernard Lee, who recently made the holidays a little brighter for a number of needy children and their families… Read more »
